[ SECRET POST #3370 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3370 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Dystopian

[(Anonymous)]

2 thoughts:
1) I am still not over how much I love Dredd, and I would like to know more about how that world works.

2) I am really interested in dystopian fiction written in the lead-up to WW2. I feel like a lot of it reflected more specifically on current issues. Like, the what-if about Hitler actually achieving his 1000 year reign. Or the one where there is no individuality. Or the one where women ruled everything.

I'm not a huge fan of dystopian fiction in general so it's possible I'm missing it, but it seems to me that most dystopian worlds written/produced now are more focused on how grim/dark and terrible the world is - it's a vehicle for conflict - where the older stuff didn't make realistic worlds (or even characters) in any sense but they were clearly commenting on social culture in interesting ways.

But I wonder if some of the appeal is that it's historical now. I don't know if it would be as interesting to read this kind of fiction dealing with RIGHT NOW because we don't know how it will turn out. The Iron Heel is interesting because you can see what he got right and wrong. Reading it at the time, it might've hit too close to home or seemed too kooky. But I think I'd still like to read something that looked at cultural issues like individuality since that is pretty universal.

Re: Dystopian

[dethtoll]

There's elements of what you're describing in various post-war sci-fi works. The Man In The High Castle is an obvious one (what if Germany and Japan won WW2?) but a more subtle take -- and like High Castle, also from Philip K. Dick -- would be A Scanner Darkly, especially the movie. The world of ASD is very much like ours (the movie describes it as "seven years from now") but with an increased surveillance apparatus as the government desperately tries to find the source of a destructive new drug called Substance D. Very little focus is placed on this surveillance state; it's more about identity, and the protagonist's dual role as stoner and undercover policeman. If there was ever a stronger indictment of both drug culture and the war on drugs at the same time, I've yet to see it.